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Portrait of Amy Johnson. She was a pioneering English pilot who was the first woman to fly solo from London to Australia. She flew in the Second World War as a part of the Air Transport Auxiliary and disappeared during a ferry flight (United Kingdom 1933)

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Photo of Crazy Horse with Buffalo Bill, Chief Joseph, and Wild Bill Hickok circa 1875-1880

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Soviet MGB officers negotiate with UPA militants (Ukrainian separatists) blocked in an underground bunker, 1946 (800х451)

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A defected Iranian soldier being lifted by protestors against the Pahlavi dynasty during the Iranian Revolution. January 1979.

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The earliest surviving Japanese photograph depicting Shimazu Nariakira, a Japanese feudal lord (daimyō) taken by one of his retainers, Ichiki Shirō in 1857.

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First official commemoration of Warsaw Uprising on August 1, 1957. It came shortly after Polish thaw of October 1956. Many of the veterans were freshly out of Stalinist prisons.

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Finnish and Soviet border guards having coffee together.early 80s. {960x720}

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Executed Communards in Paris, c. 1971. They were members of the National Guard and supporters of the 1871 Paris Commune, the world's first socialist government, which was formed in the aftermath of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War

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Original color photograph of "Armored Knights" participating in the "2000 years of German Culture" exhibition organized by the Nazis in Munich, 1937. (986x1185)

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Part of the 320th squadron of the “Jolly Rogers” 90th Bombardment Group, the crew of this B-24 arrived in Papua New Guinea only four months prior before being shot down in March of 1944.

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German Gebirgsjäger (alpine troops) in a snowy forest on the Eastern Front - the first soldier was armed with a MP43/1 Sturmgewer assault rifle, c. March 1944.

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Actor Christian Bale in his bedroom, at home in Bournemouth, Dorset (United Kingdom 1987)

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